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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Plate

ca. 1825 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

By the 1820s there was a popular market for polychrome decoration in a pseudo-Chinese style. Mass-produced bone china was decorated with simple transfer-printed outlines. Unskilled artists then filled these in with a limited range of contrasting colours. This provided bright and wholesome tea wares at a modest cost.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Bone-china with bat-printed decoration
Brief description
Bone-china plate with enamelled outline-printed decoration, by Hilditch & Son of Longton, about 1825.
Physical description
Bone-china plate with enamelled outline-printed decoration.
Dimensions
  • Maximum diameter: 19.8cm
Marks and inscriptions
'H&S' within a wreath and a crown (printed in red)
Credit line
Given by Mrs B. E. Adams
Summary
By the 1820s there was a popular market for polychrome decoration in a pseudo-Chinese style. Mass-produced bone china was decorated with simple transfer-printed outlines. Unskilled artists then filled these in with a limited range of contrasting colours. This provided bright and wholesome tea wares at a modest cost.
Bibliographic reference
Hildyard, Robin. European Ceramics. London : V&A Publications, 1999. 144 p., ill. ISBN 185177260X
Collection
Accession number
C.23-1966

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Record createdDecember 5, 2002
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